Okay everyone, use your imaginations. Obviously in the future! I imagine this being set about the time they are 13/14. Enjoy! Love, Katie. Recommended Listening while reading: Breathless by Acceptance, Dangerous Game from Jekyll and Hyde the musical.

I don't own Jimmy.

Ice

Sasha Vortex checked her watch for the sixth time since Ms. Leona had arrived. It was six thirty. This was the third week in a row that Cynthia had missed her piano lesson to be with that Neutron boy.

"You can go Ms. Leona. You've been here for an hour and I don't want to keep you waiting any longer."

Ms. Leona just nodded and disappeared out the door. Sasha cursed under her breath as the piano teacher climbed into her car and drove away.

She hissed. How dare she miss her piano lessons that her parents dished out 100 dollars a month for? That wasn't like Cindy. It's like her daughter had been replaced with another girl she didn't even know. One with a rebellious streak….

Now that she thought about it, however, she'd been acting strange in other ways too. She'd dance around in the kitchen when she thought no one was looking. She'd sigh dreamily when she thought no one could hear. In fact, she had heard Cindy singing in the shower once or twice. At first she'd ignored it, but with her almost periodic dreamy state it was a little too much.

Was it possible that her daughter was in love?

No, that was impossible. Cindy was smart, successful, driven and competitive. She surely knew that she didn't need to have a disgusting distraction like love in her way. That was the fatal mistake Sasha had made when she was a teenager. She had allowed herself be swept away by a boy and the next thing she knew she was having an abortion. But, surely her daughter was smarter than she had been.

There was only one way to find out to find out for sure.

She went up the stairs, turned the corner to Cindy's room and entered. She flicked on the lights. It was different then how it used to be, the princess wall paper had been replaced by a light pink. She crossed over to Cindy's bed side table and began to rummage through it. When she found nothing she moved to the computer desk, finding nothing other than old wrappers and a few school photos of her friends. She sat down on the bed and was about to give up when she saw a floor board that was a little loose.

She got on her hands and knees and propped open the board and with a smile removed a small pink book that was worn and torn from years of usage.

Across the front cover it read, Cindy's Diary, DO NOT READ!

She opened it and tried to find the night when all this strange behavior had started. She guessed that it was somewhere around the sixteenth of November.

November 16th- Today was a huge bummer. I only got a C on my history test. I don't know why it's so hard for me.

Of course, it's a whiz for stupid Neutron. So I've been wondering if I should I ask him for help?

Oh, what new low have I come to? Even dreaming of asking for help from him…. He'd gloat for eternity.

Anyway, I've got to go. XOXO, Cindy.

Her daughter had gotten a C on a test and hadn't told her? Oh, she was totally grounded. But obviously she had been incorrect about it being the sixteenth. Maybe it was the seventeenth.

November 17th-What the heck have I been smoking? I asked for his help. He just about fainted.

I tried to tell him I just can't afford another C on my test and he laughed! Oh, dear Lord, please help me.

XOXO, Cindy.

Maybe this is why she'd been spending so much extra time with the boy; maybe there wasn't anything to worry about after all. Still, she couldn't keep from reading on.

November 18th- I am now certain that I am smoking something.

Neutron kissed me. Not like a small peck either. He full on kissed me…. For like five seconds.

I mean, I was sitting there, pouring over my history book when suddenly he was freakin' kissing me!

We've kissed before sure, but when he kissed me like that it was…

Whoa.

The only way to describe it is fireworks… Just like all those stupid corny romance movies… The way his perfect lips moved against mine. Oh, even thinking about it gets me all flustered. It's totally embarrassing.

I can't wait till he does it again… This time, I'll be ready for him. ;)

And do you know what made it even more phenomenal? He told me he loves me!

LOVE!

James Isaac Neutron is in love with me? -Insert sigh of utter happiness.-

The boy I've loved since I was eleven loves me too.

Can this day possibly get any better?

XOXO, Cindy.

After Sasha had read the last few lines the little pink book dropped out of her hands and fell with a soft thud onto the floor.

This was worse than she thought.

Not only was her girl in love, she'd been kissing a boy! Her hands formed fists on her legs as she gritted her teeth together. How dare that little prick make a move on her daughter? But, according to that little book her daughter had enjoyed it! She was in love! It was obvious that Cindy would screw up her life if Sasha didn't stop it right here and right now.

With an angry growl she got up and picked up the phone on Cindy's nightstand and dialed the Neutron home.

"Hello, this is Judy."

"Hello, this is Sasha Vortex calling. I believe my daughter Cindy is in your son's clubhouse. Would you please tell her that she needs to return home?"

"Oh!" Mrs. Neutron laughed. "I didn't even know Cindy was here today. I'll buzz Jimmy. She'll be home soon."

"Good," she hissed and then slammed down the receiver on the phone.

From the window she watched her daughter come out of the small clubhouse with a sickeningly happy smile.

She would never see that boy again; Sasha would make damn sure of that.

-x-

A/N: The title Ice is obviously a reference to her mother being as cold as ice. =) Hope you enjoyed it.